A man died early Saturday morning after cutting off his own penis, attempting to cut off his arm, and slitting his own throat on a Downtown Los Angeles street.
The incident occurred around 3:40 a.m. at Figueroa Street and Pico Boulevard, near the LA Convention Center.
LAPD officers responded to reports of a man cutting himself and found him in the middle of self-mutilation.
“They found somebody suffering from self-mutilation,” Officer Jeff Lee told City News Service. “The individual was cutting himself, bleeding.”
The man, whose identity has not been made public, was pronounced dead at the scene from blood loss.
Eyewitness accounts and freelance journalists from OnSceneTV described a nightmarish scene.
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The man had reportedly stripped off his clothing while staggering toward a nearby 7-Eleven before collapsing in a pool of his own blood.
Bloody clothing was scattered across the sidewalk, and authorities quickly put a white tent over the body to shield it from the public, but graphic footage from the scene revealed extensive bloodstains and a large wound in the groin area.
No motive has been reported, and toxicology results are still pending.
The incident is a tragic example of the dire consequences of California’s soft-on-crime policies under Governor Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass, who have allowed mental illness and addiction to spiral out of control.
